Active is anything that's being under editorial process that doesn't fits the above categories.

Item should only appear in one category. I don't see need for more categories.

Categories should not appear if they have no items, so reviewers will not see them all.

I think that's why we need to keep the tasks tab (see at a glance what we have to do).

Archive should exist, but I don't see the need to show tasks there.

Dashboard should still be global. I still think it's good to have a checkbox to enable it, and as soon it is enabled, users can interact with context filters for the grids (both tasks and submissions).

That's another reason I don't think it's good to remove the tasks tab.

Agree with above, although we need to experiment with task tab. Further on the icon discussion, we do want the eye to go to the tasks so I'm ready to think about icons for this. For the editor, we may want to just bell their tasks, while indicating that their section editors have tasks outstanding on their submissions but without requiring the same level of attention. The Unassigned needs no additional attention, as every item there needs the same thing every time one appears.

In that sense, I ask you to look again at this screen shot and ask yourself whether a red bell with the number 1 or 2 in it is needed to draw your attention to the presence of a task, compared to the current use of asterisks indicating a task. I am not arguing for the asterisk but only for using no more of an icon than is needed in scanning a list (and thus am not yet entirely an iconoclast). We need to think of this as a list that the eye scans down checking where things are at and what needs to be done. Google uses the bell to bring your to a part of the screen you are not otherwise considering; this is a dashboard and what you are checking is the status of tasks.

John, I thought your proposal was a replacement for both submissions and tasks tabs. I don't have a strong opinion either way, but we are trying to avoid presenting the same content in multiple places as a general rule.

Bruno, for reviewers who have a single submission (a common case), this will look like...